July 28, 200917 yr I've had a quick look but can't really see what I'm looking for. Could someone point me in the right direction please? I'm designing a website for a local band. Their current website is just a basic HTML website with images, gig dates and a link to an external store. The website I am working on will have a calendar with all the gig dates on so they can be exported to Calendar program (iCal etc), an image gallery that members can add to (sign-up feature required), free downloads for members only, a forum, guestbook, bio's that the band members can update. I'm thinking this is going to need to be done with a CMS? How can I use the design i do with a CMS? (Currently i'm designing with PS and making websites in (x)HTML so this is all new stuff to me). Thank you.
July 28, 200917 yr I use Pure SEOCMS for a few of my sites and I think you may find it useful.Take a look at This Page, you can try a free copy (not time limited) from the page.
July 28, 200917 yr Author I will take a look. Thank you. Users will be signing up to the website, so a database is going to need to be used. Is this something that runs on my server then i view with an application on my machine? Sorry for my lack of knowledge and experience. Any help is greatly appreciated.
July 28, 200917 yr Wordpress can do all of that for you. Do a search for 'wordpress band themes' and that might give you some inspiration. The learning curve's a bit steep if you're new to php but it's worth it.
July 28, 200917 yr Author Cool. I want to design the tempalte myself, I'll do a search for a tutorial on how to create my own design for Wordpress.
July 28, 200917 yr Download the 'starkers wordpress theme' wordpress theme by Elliot Jay Stocks - It's got all the functionality in place [kind of] but no style and you can literally build your theme from scratch. I use this all the time. It was hard to do the first one, but I used this set of video tutorials to get me on the right track from CSS Tricks and then there was no stopping me: http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/25-designing-for-wordpress-part-one/ http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/26-designing-for-wordpress-part-two/ http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/27-designing-for-wordpress-part-three/ There's loads of screencasts on this site and I've just found one about using wordpress as a CMS which might be useful: http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/41-wordpress-as-a-cms/
July 28, 200917 yr Just found this link in the css tracks footer: http://bandwebsitetemplate.com/ Also might be useful
July 28, 200917 yr Author Thank you very much I will take a look when I get home from work. Will be nice to get the ball rolling with this website.
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